Actor
Born Apr 12, 1944 · Kroměříž, Czechoslovakia
Active 1973–1994 · Awards: Czech Medal of Merit, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class
Karel Kryl was a Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and author of many hit protest songs in which he explicitly criticized the Communist regimes in his home country for their hypocrisy and inhumanity.